3 US Soldiers, 18 Iraqis KiIled, in a September 19, 2007 Report

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported the following war attacks and deaths.

- 3 US soldiers were killed, three were injured in an attack in Diyala.

The US news agency, the Associated Press (AP), reported the death of 18 Iraqis and two US soldiers today.

Wednesday's Developments in Iraq

Sep 19, 2007, 2:28 PM EDT

The Associated Press

Some events and scattered violence across Iraq on Wednesday:

- Iraq's prime minister disputed Blackwater USA's version of a weekend shooting that left at least 11 people dead and declared he would not tolerate "the killing of our citizens in cold blood." The State Department said a joint U.S.-Iraqi commission will be formed to investigate the incident.

- A U.S. soldier was killed during combat operations in the west of the Iraqi capital and another one died of non-battle related causes, the military said.

- Democratic legislation to regulate troop combat tours in Iraq ran into stiff resistance in the Senate from Republicans who said the military, not Congress, should manage deployments.

- Iraqi troops killed 14 (Iraqi fighters) in clashes in the northern city of Mosul, following a failed suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army base in the city's eastern sector, Brig. Ahmed Zebari said.

- A roadside bomb in Mosul also killed one Iraqi soldier and wounded three.

- A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt near a U.S. Army checkpoint outside Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding five others, including three women, police said.

- In a pre-dawn raid in Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, U.S. troops killed one Iraqi (fighter).

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